Microscopes - An Introduction
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A Brief History of the Microscope
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Galileo
1564 –1642
Approximately how
many years ago did he
live?
450
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Galileo
•Italian astronomer
•“The father of modern
astronomy” – discovered
Jupiter’s moons, sunspots,
planets revolved around the
sun
•Built a telescope that saw
things “up close”
( a microscope)
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Galileo
Galileo’s microscope
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Robert Hooke
1635 –1703
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Robert Hooke
*English physicist
*looked at a little piece
of cork through his
microscope – saw small
“cells” (little rooms)
*an excellent illustrator -
wrote a book called
Micrographia
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Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke’s
microscope
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20X magnification
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Antony van Leeuwenhoek
1632 –1723
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Antony van Leeuwenhoek
•Dutch microscopist
•No advanced education
•Discovered single-celled
animals in pond water
•Discovered bacteria and
blood cells
•Made over 500
microscopes
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Antony van Leeuwenhoek’s microscope
A: Screw for adjusting height of object
B: Metal plate serving as the body
C: Skewer to impale the object and rotate it
D: The lens itself; which was spherical
* magnification of 270
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300X magnification
*scales on a
butterfly
wing
*pollen on a
butterfly
tongue
*wasp
eye
*brown
algae
in pond
water